{"id":900,"date":"2008-04-24T14:13:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-24T20:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=900"},"modified":"2008-04-24T14:13:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-24T20:13:00","slug":"ofcom-media-research-for-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/04\/ofcom-media-research-for-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Ofcom: media research for men&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">D<\/span>on\u2019t you just love the value-free world of media research?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I\u2019m missing the irony in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ofcom.org.uk\/media\/news\/2008\/04\/nr_20080402\">this categorisation<\/a> of social networkers from British media regulator <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Ofcom<\/span> (in my defence, they aren\u2019t known for irony): <span id=\"fullpost\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p># <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Alpha Socialisers<\/span> \u2013 mostly male, under 25s, who use sites in intense short bursts to flirt, meet new people and be entertained.<\/p>\n<p># <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Attention Seekers<\/span> \u2013 mostly female, who crave attention and comments from others, often by posting photos and customising their profiles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019m sure they\u2019re not saying there\u2019s anything wrong with being an attention seeker. Or pathetic. Or a girl.<\/p>\n<p>Must ask my daughter if she reads it like that&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t you just love the value-free world of media research? Maybe I\u2019m missing the irony in this categorisation of social networkers from British media regulator Ofcom (in my defence, they aren\u2019t known for irony): # Alpha Socialisers \u2013 mostly male, under 25s, who use sites in intense short bursts to flirt, meet new people and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}